碩士 / 淡江大學 / 大陸研究所 / 89 / This thesis examines the interactions between China''s universities and technology -based industry from the late-1970''s through 2000. It focuses on the motivation and effectiveness of such interactions as co-sponsoring research activities, co-investing in companies and science-parks, co-managing investment fund or incubators, partnering in state-enterprises reform and local economies upgrade, among others. The thesis uses historic and literature review and case study methods. Four focused, in-depth case studies were conducted for the Shanghai Jiao-Tung University in Shanghai, Nan-king University in Nan-king, University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and Xidian University (Xi''an Electronic and Technology University) in Xi''an.
Wu''s “Nine Strategies” and Maslow''s theory on Needs'' Hierarchy were employed by the researcher to propose a theoretical model of “stabilized five-dimensional pyramid” as an initial model for growth analyses framework as part of the explanation to such interactions. This model is based on the “stabilizer” role of the universities in the inter-play of government, industries, incubators, capital market, and the universities as observed in this research.
The thesis summarizes that major motivations for Chinese technology-based industry to initiate interaction with the universities may include (but not limited to) the following: acquisition of high-quality human resources, access to up-dated technologies, cost-effectiveness (as compared to having the industry''s own research team), assistance to the corporate planning of future product and technologies, support to personnel training, bridging technological equipment shortfall, improved product recognition as affiliated with reputable universities, networking and perspectives broadening, input of fresh management mechanism as a factor to reform of corporate culture and upgrade of morale, access to incentives programs such as tax break/rebate and land price discount in the science parks, access to state research grants and financing resources such as venture capitals and open-market capitals to improve its corporate value (the PRC Security Regulatory Commission openly favors academic-affiliated stocks for initial public offering, as most private investors do), among others.
Furthermore, the thesis summarizes that why the universities opt to interact with the technology-based industry may be explained by the following reasons: increased income to the universities and their staff, policy guidance and incentives from the central government, additional funding sources for research (outside the public sector''s), improved capacity to universities'' laboratories, substantiated understanding and knowledge of the real-world situations for both professors and students, request from the government for technology research to be co-developed with the industry, industrialization/commercialization of research outcomes, invitation from the industry, support and request from the local government, and further realization of societal value of the universities, among others.
The thesis concludes the following:
- Technology-focused universities in PRC have been more
sophisticated than the science-focused or other universities
in industrial cooperation;
- Reputable universities enjoy more advantage through
interacting with the industry, making them stronger and
resource-richer over time as compared to other schools;
- Education Ministry-led universities in PRC perform more
industrial cooperation than their counterparts managed by
other ministries or local governments;
- While application-oriented research at the universities have
better access to corporate funding than the fundamental
research, the former actually contribute resources and
opportunities to the latter’s development at the same
schools (through resources re-allocation by university
managers);
- Initial motivations of improved income has transformed into
drive for self-accomplishment of the universities’ staff in
cooperating with the industry; their level of involvement has
also transformed from initial, simple provision of technology
to co-investment in enterprises and promotion of
entrepreneurship;
- Both universities and industries have grown to pay more
attention and offer increased resources to their join
collaboration activities;
- Initial technological exchange and support to the industry
has upgraded into corporate image enhancement;
- Corporate sponsorship in fundamental research has increased
over the years and has become important source in addition to
the government;
- Performance in industrial cooperation has become one of the
criteria of academic evaluation of professors in major
universities;
- Corporate funding has gradually undertaken government grants
as the major source of research funding, making it possible
for the universities to sustain their research activities
with increased industrial R & D budget;
- Points of interactions such as joint research centers,
science parks, co-invested companies, and incubators have
gradually moved from on-campus locations to off-campus, and
even further to locations in other provinces, and this mainly
from Eastern or coastal universities;
- Eastern and coastal universities enjoy much more
sophisticated and intensive interactions with the industry
than their counterparts in the western and inland regions;
- Local governments in the Eastern and coastal regions also
offers much more incentives and supports to academic-
industrial interactions than their counterparts in the
western and inland regions;
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/089TKU00025005 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Yang-Chien, Kuo, 郭楊鶱 |
| Contributors | Shih-Liang, Tu, 屠世亮 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 231 |
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